Hexfire vs Nova

Hexfire - Elemental Strategy - COMPLETELY FREE & NO ADS! Master the elements. Dominate the board. Outsmart your opponent. Hexfire is a fast-paced strategy game where you place elemental tiles on a hex grid to capture territory and trigger chain reactions. Every move matters — choose the right element, control key positions, and build connected regions to maximize your score. Four elements. One rule. Fire beats Earth. Earth beats Air. Air beats Water. Water beats Fire. Simple to learn, endlessly deep to master. NEW — ARCANE BATTLE A whole new way to play. Align three tiles of the same element to AWAKEN an evolved tile that unleashes its signature power — Wildfire, Flood, Landslide, or Tornado. Then swing the game with GAMBITS: one-shot powers you charge and fire off — Detonate blows a hole in the board, Conscript steals an enemy tile, Surge floods you with energy. And the AI plays the new mechanics too, so it won't go easy on you. STRATEGIC DEPTH Place tiles across three power levels, each costing more energy. Higher power tiles are harder to capture but drain your resources. Manage a rotating hand of elements — with the next one always telegraphed — and balance aggression with efficiency to outplay the AI or a friend. CHAIN REACTIONS Capture an enemy tile, and it fights for you — triggering cascading captures across the board. One well-placed tile can flip the entire game. CONTESTED FOUNTS & COMEBACKS Fight over glowing fount hexes worth bonus points, and never count yourself out — fall behind and you'll earn a comeback boost that keeps every match clutch right to the final move. HIDDEN ABILITIES Twelve hidden power-ups are scattered across the board. Discover Wildfire, Flood, Landslide, and Tornado to unleash devastating elemental effects that can turn the tide in an instant. AN AI WITH ATTITUDE Your opponent talks back — out loud. Pull off a big combo and the AI will taunt you in a deep announcer voice. (Toggle it off anytime in Settings.) FOUR IMMERSIVE THEMES Play across Volcanic, Ocean, Forest, and Cloud battlefields, each with stunning layered visual effects that bring the board to life. MULTIPLE BOARD SHAPES Battle on five unique layouts including Diamond, Star, Islands, and Crumbling boards where hexes fall away as you play, forcing you to adapt your strategy on the fly. GAME MODES FOR EVERYONE Arcane Battle — evolve tiles and cast Gambits Battle AI across three difficulty levels Blitz Mode with timed turns for quick matches Daily Challenge with a new puzzle every day and streaks to chase Local 2-Player on a single device Global Battle online through Game Center Campaign mode with 25 levels to conquer COMPETE GLOBALLY Climb Game Center leaderboards for high score, biggest chain reaction, online wins, daily streaks, and total campaign stars. BUILT FOR COMPETITION Scoring rewards both tile count and connectivity. Your largest connected region is squared and multiplied, so building big clusters is the key to massive scores. Download Hexfire and discover why one more game always turns into ten.

You command one star at the edge of a contested galaxy, with a few hundred ships in the garrison and a clock counting down. Everything else is neutral, or held by a rival who wants it as badly as you do. Hold the most living stars when the mission timer ends and you win. Knock every rival out first, and you win early. Nova is a real-time space-strategy game of galactic conquest for two or more players. Every commander starts with exactly the same star, ships, and credits, so games are won by decisions, not dice. A war of decisions. You move under fog of war, seeing only what your own stars and scouts can reach, so a spy probe before an assault is often worth more than the ships it costs. The defender always holds the home-field edge, which means you have to outnumber a garrison by better than three to two just to fight to even odds. Capture stars, build factories, and your fleets and treasury compound together; spend on speed, range, or battle power and the advantage carries across your whole empire. Drop a nova bomb and a star is gone for good, which denies it to a rival but scores it for no one. Diplomacy you can hold someone to. Talk in-game on a global channel or in a private thread with a single commander. Then make it binding: a contract offers another player cash outright, or only if they send the fleet you ask for, to the star you name. The moment they accept, the cash moves and the fleet launches on their behalf, and it cannot be recalled. Alliances are only as good as the deals behind them, and here the deals actually stick. Set the pace yourself. A game's host decides how long it runs and how fast its clock turns. Spin up a one-hour sprint where production ticks every few seconds and the whole war is settled over a lunch break. Or stretch the same game over days or even weeks, a long campaign you think about between meetings and come back to when something shifts. Any player can propose a pause for sleep or work, and once a second player agrees, the whole game freezes, deadlines and all, until it resumes. Let it run in the background. You never have to keep the app open or refresh anything. Nova notifies your device when it actually matters: a star of yours under attack, a shield that just blocked a spy probe, a fleet that reached its target, a message from a rival, a pause proposal, the game kicking off. Leave a slow game running for days and you will not lose the thread. Less micromanagement, more strategy. Fleets route themselves through your territory, so you can strike far beyond a single jump without plotting every hop. Standing orders turn a safe rear star into a supply pump: keep a garrison, forward the surplus, and reinforcements march to the front on their own while you think about the next move. Build your own galaxies in the map editor and play them with friends, or drop into a balanced Risk-style world for two to six commanders. Play from your iPhone, iPad or a browser against the same opponents; a game runs identically whether you join from iOS or the web.